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...itself until it had diamond-drilled and staked the area. Not until last month did Brown disclose the full extent of his find to the Manitoba Chamber of Mines. Lynn Lake, he said, seemed to be the richest nickel strike on the North American continent since Sudbury, Ont. (1880s) - and the only important one not controlled by International Nickel, which supplies the U.S. with most of its nickel...
...Fabian Society had really been founded 62 years ago, but, because of the war, it delayed the celebration. The postponement was in character; Fabius Cunctator (The Delayer) had worn out Hannibal in the Second Punic War* by what Livy called "masterly inactivity." The earnest young men & women of the 1880s who believed that socialism (not the Marxist brand) would come with what Webb called the "inevitability of gradualness" took Fabius as their exemplar. They considered violent revolution unnecessary, believed their Utopia could be achieved by "permeating" existing institutions...
...lucky author is Mrs. Elizabeth Metzger Howard, 45, wife of a British-born mining engineer. Her novel Before the Sun Goes Down, a story of a Pennsylvania town in the 1880s, will be published early next year-as the winner of both the $20,000 Doubleday, Doran Novel Contest and the $125,000 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Annual Novel Award. The $145,000 is not the end of Mrs. Howard's windfall. M.G.M. will pay her up to $50,000 more if her book becomes a best-seller -and may offer her a writing contract to boot...
...Fruitless Search. In the years which followed, many another prospector searched for the site of the Lost Cabin. None ever found it. But in the early 1880s John Brognard Okie, a son of President Lincoln's physician, came to Wyoming, resolved to turn the Lost Cabin country into a different kind of bonanza. He began running sheep along cottonwood-shaded Badwater Creek and in the high mountain meadows beyond...
...Long known, in revenge, as "Little Chicago," because Chicago in the 1880s named its red-light district "Little Cheyenne...